Day-of-the-week effects in Selected East Asian stock markets

This study examines the day-of-the-week effects in the Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea stock markets. Various significant day-of-the-week effects, including the typical negative Monday and positive Friday effects are detected in the stock markets Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Further...

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Main Authors: Venus, Khim-Sen Liew, Ricky, Chee-Jiun Chia, Syed Azizi Wafa, Syed Khalid Wafa
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Language:English
Published: Economics Bulletin 2008
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author Venus, Khim-Sen Liew
Ricky, Chee-Jiun Chia
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description This study examines the day-of-the-week effects in the Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea stock markets. Various significant day-of-the-week effects, including the typical negative Monday and positive Friday effects are detected in the stock markets Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Further analysis shows that only Friday effect in Taiwan is sustainable while all other effects disappeared completely after accounting for equity risks. Besides, this study also finds evidences of risk and return tradeoff as well as asymmetrical market effects.
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spelling unimas-562020-05-05T04:16:25Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/56/ Day-of-the-week effects in Selected East Asian stock markets Venus, Khim-Sen Liew Ricky, Chee-Jiun Chia Syed Azizi Wafa, Syed Khalid Wafa AC Collections. Series. Collected works HF Commerce HG Finance This study examines the day-of-the-week effects in the Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea stock markets. Various significant day-of-the-week effects, including the typical negative Monday and positive Friday effects are detected in the stock markets Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Further analysis shows that only Friday effect in Taiwan is sustainable while all other effects disappeared completely after accounting for equity risks. Besides, this study also finds evidences of risk and return tradeoff as well as asymmetrical market effects. Economics Bulletin 2008-03-07 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/56/1/Day-of-the-week%20effects%20in%20Selected%20East%20Asian%20stock%20markets%20%28abstract%29.pdf Venus, Khim-Sen Liew and Ricky, Chee-Jiun Chia and Syed Azizi Wafa, Syed Khalid Wafa (2008) Day-of-the-week effects in Selected East Asian stock markets. Economics Bulletin, 7 (5). pp. 1-8.
spellingShingle AC Collections. Series. Collected works
HF Commerce
HG Finance
Venus, Khim-Sen Liew
Ricky, Chee-Jiun Chia
Syed Azizi Wafa, Syed Khalid Wafa
Day-of-the-week effects in Selected East Asian stock markets
title Day-of-the-week effects in Selected East Asian stock markets
title_full Day-of-the-week effects in Selected East Asian stock markets
title_fullStr Day-of-the-week effects in Selected East Asian stock markets
title_full_unstemmed Day-of-the-week effects in Selected East Asian stock markets
title_short Day-of-the-week effects in Selected East Asian stock markets
title_sort day-of-the-week effects in selected east asian stock markets
topic AC Collections. Series. Collected works
HF Commerce
HG Finance
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/56/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/56/1/Day-of-the-week%20effects%20in%20Selected%20East%20Asian%20stock%20markets%20%28abstract%29.pdf